MMM 2004

Welcome to the homepage of the 11th Symposium on Automation in
Mining, Mineral and Metal processing -- MMM 2004
Nancy, France, September 8-10, 2004

The aim of this symposium is the same as that of its ten predecessors: to review the state of the art and to look at innovations in the field of automation in Mining, Mineral and Metal processing. In common with any other engineering fields, Environmental problems including Recycling, Safety and Reliability considerations as well, will be highlighted in the Symposium. However, the organising committee maintains the view that developments in the basic control methodologies and technologies such as measurement, instrumentation, networking, etc. are essential to the solution of global problems. The emphasis is placed on practice of those technologies, but such theoretical researches as accompanied with practical experience/consideration will be also welcome.

modelling,
identification and estimation,
fault diagnosis,
advanced control,
fault tolerant control,
signal processing,
quality monitoring,
communication and data management,
maintenance scheduling,
production planning, process optimisation,
AI methods : expert systems, neural networks, fuzzy control.

Applications:

metal processing,
hot/cold rolling,
steel making and continuous casting,
blast furnaces and furnaces,
electro refining,
hydro metallurgy,
environment and recycling,
waste water treatment,
mining and mineral processing,
grinding and flotation,
measurement and instrumentation,
supervision,
new sensor technologies.

The meeting is held under the auspices of IFAC - the "International Federation of Automatic Control",

The scientific program will consist of

Plenary lectures by invited speakers
Regular (contributed) paper presentations in oral sessions

Sponsor:	IFAC - International Federation of Automatic Control Technical committee on Automation in Mining Mineral and Metal Processing
Co-Sponsors:	IFAC Technical Comittee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes IFAC Technical Committee on Control of Biotechnological Systems
Host institutions:
Organizers:	CRAN - Centre de Recherche en Automatique de Nancy Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1 - France
Organizers:	SEE - Société de l'Electricité, de l'Electronique, et des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication - France